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Inside adult filmmaking

It's sweeps, which perhaps explains the rush of porn themes on television.

But at least one adult program, showing Monday, manages to be more amusing, even enlightening, than creepy or tacky.

It's on AMC, and it's called "The AMC Project: I Want to Be Clive McLean" (9 p.m.).

Clive McLean is an apparently well-regarded porn director in the employ of Larry Flynt, and the I in question is Peter Mattei, a "legit" director whose Sundance feature does not bring him mainstream offers.

So Mattei, with cameras in tow, contemplates alternative work, beginning with an exploration of adult filmmaking.

Going skeet shooting with McLean, he refers to the shot where he finally nails the pigeon as "my money shot."

Waiting for a male actor to complete his day's work, he remarks, "It had been a strangely wholesome scene, like rooting for your nephew at his high school soccer game."

And then there's the visit to veteran actor/director Ron Jeremy, who counsels Mattei to "always show women's feet and have" a certain specific sexual act.

"Ron had some great advice," is Mattei's next line, deadpan.

At 9:30, he follows with "I Want to Be Karan Johar"; Johar is a Bollywood director.

May his curiosity land Mattei a job directing something non-musical and mostly clothed.